The F-35A Has Finally Fired Its Gun In-Flight
The F-35A has finally fired its GAU-22/A multibarreled 25mm Gatling cannon in-flight. According to the official F-35 program website, the event actually took place on the [read more...]
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The F-16IN Super Viper Could Get Another Shot with the Indian Air Force
According to The Indian Express, the United States has extended an offer to India to jointly produce a line of fighter jets to both enhance military ties as well as provide [read more...]
Redeveloping the F-4 Phantom II into a Mach 3+ Fighter/Spy Plane
Few aircraft in history have flown to the same level of distinction as McDonnell Douglas’ F-4 Phantom II. It was the jet that ushered in a new age of fighter aviation, [read more...]
The Raptor Showing Us Why It’s a Superior Dogfighter
Scott Stringham is a photographer, and like Jim Mumaw whose work we shared earlier, he’s a damn good one. Not too long ago, at Hill AFB’s annual airshow, Scott [read more...]
Life After the Warthog
“There’s only so much you can get out of that airplane,” Carlisle said. “Those airplanes are gonna wear out. They’ve been worked very, very [read more...]
The Next Generation of Close Air Support
The venerable Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, more commonly known as the Warthog or simply Hog, has been in the news constantly for the past 13 months or so. [read more...]
Timing is Everything
Oddly enough, one of my earliest memories of seeing military aircraft in-flight didn’t come from me attending an airshow or seeing them at an air base. It was actually [read more...]
The Vought V-507
I recently came across a number of pictures of a “Vought Vagabond”, an aircraft bearing a striking resemblance to the Grumman F-14 Tomcat and General Dynamics [read more...]
It’s all about Aggression
The 64th Aggressor Squadron (64 AGRS) have been providing dissimilar air combat training for over 40 years. Alan Kenny/Speedbird visited the squadron in November 2013. The [read more...]
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F-16 Production to Carry on to 2020 Reuters reports that Lockheed Martin expects to carry on production of the F-16 Fighting Falcon up till mid-to-late 2017 and receive [read more...]
